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Sunday, 16 July 2017

It
can be more of a challenge than you expect to work with one colour
palette. I love how Carol has made this fantastic book and stuck to her
palette with different shades of the same gorgeous blue. How perfect is
this for a travel journal!?

Hi everyone, it's Carolwith
you today, and I'd like to share with you a little journal I have made.
I like to make things from scratch as I enjoy the whole process of
printing my own backgrounds with a Gelli Plate and making something that
looks so uniquely your own is lovely. I quite often make these to give
as gifts as the pockets and tags just seem to be made to keep all those
special keepsakes in. I have done them for the bride to be for Hen-do
weekends and baby keepsake books, the list in endless. Keep them as
simple or as intricate as you wish, you can truly make them your own.

With
the variation of prints I had a good selection to mix up the pages when
I made my book up so although I got a nice consistency with the colour
there is still a nice surprise when you turn the pages.

I
used black ink to stamp lots of images from the Stamp Sets by Tracy
Scott. I especially used the large flower from ETS09 a lot as I masked
off the inside and added lines to write on, it was a lovely size for
this, and the smaller stamps on ETS11 were lovely to add small details
with.

I
added a few extra bits, a large elastic wrap closure for the book using
the large butterly (I do love how this turned out) , a charm and a
couple of journal clips, using elements from the stamps sets above.
Finishing my whole project off with some stitching and a bit of black
paint to edge all the pages.

I
added lots of bits to my journal, tags for extra places to write, and
lots of stamped images throughout, I have for the main part at the
moment left these uncoloured as I am intending to take this away with me
next month to fill with holiday rambling and other stuff. It will give
me something to colour if I fancy it and as all the stamping is done all
I need are a few colouring pencils.

As
I said in my opening post I love to make things from nothing. But what
also works well for this type of book is a junk journal. I went to Rome
last year and I came home with every bit of tat imaginable, but I used
the tourist maps for my pages, cut up things for my tags and I ended up
with a lovely memory of my holiday and a handy book to keep all the
other stuff in too. I do have a link on my blog to the book instructions
and also a very short video showing how I made my charm, a blog link is
below.

What
a beautiful and practical idea Carol! This palette just oozes summer,
and such a treasure it would be to fill it with sunny memories from a
special trip! ~Leandra

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Carol, I love your creation. Great gelli pages and that's a great idea to use Tracy's flower to draw lines and write inside. Great attention to detail with the butterfly and the little clips. Finished off with black stitching makes it just perfect. Love the calming colours! Xx

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